Lilith was a 16 year old girl, standing at around 5 feet 7 inches, with pale white skin and raven black hair with purple eyes that had about the same amount of different shades of color as a amethyst geode. Her straight raven hair was long, all the way down her back, stopping just before her butt, her skin was flawless and smooth, always looking older than she really was. This was due to the combination of her large chest and her defined features, which did lead to a number of unwanted incidents. That paled in comparison to the discrimination she faced, mostly towards how pale she was and how uncomfortable she made everyone and anything around her.

Despite her best protests, it was true, animals tended to run from her, always staring at her with fear, other kids her age seemed to sense something about Lilith that she couldn't; and tended to stay away from her because of that. Sure there were exceptions, but they never lasted long, partially due to Lilith's mistrust of them, but also in part to the fact that they leave almost as fast as they come into her life. Lilith had long since then resigned herself to a secluded life, always on guard, always on the edge.

There was only one exception to all of this, and it was her childhood friend, Christopher Chase, or Chris, as he preferred to be called.

He stuck by her, no matter what happened, even when the other kids picked on him for being friends with her, he shrugged them off and continued to be her friend. Like always, at first she was shy and nervous, scared even, but eventually she warmed up to him and was more than glad to be his friend. That all changed when she had to change foster homes once more.

See, Lilith was given up at the age of three, by her parents, and has bounced from foster home to foster home, mostly because of the strange occurrences that happen around Lilith. As unbelievable as it sounds, it was unfortunately true. At her last foster home, as they were shooting off fireworks in the backyard for 4th of July, a half dead dog appeared, freaking everyone out. It came up to Lilith, and in the porch light it was clear that it should have been long dead, bone was visible as well with rotting flesh. It seemed to pause, looking at her, as if, waiting for something from her. Lilith stared at the creature, horrified, before it collapsed and sank into the ground. She had to move out of that foster home by 5pm the next day.

That was only the most extreme case, but you the gist of it.

She had just moved into her new foster home, just last week, after a month of waiting. It was a couple, a young man and woman, who wanted to raise children, but the woman was unable to get pregnant, so they decided to adopt. They first greeting went pretty well and Lilith liked them, however, she was more afraid of what she'd do to their relationship, by just being here. What freak thing would occur next?

Chris Chase, was a tall, tan, blonde haired kid with blue eyes, he was handsome and always the center of attention, and had good aim. Chris was always there to protect her and always told her it was okay, she was able to hide behind him when she wanted to, and he never complained. She got so used to relying on Chris, she hadn't realized how dependent she had become on him. That only made their separation much more difficult to deal with.

She was thirteen when she met Chris, and they had become great friends, her only friend, actually. However, it was that eventful day at school that caused that to end. After an event with a raccoon that had infiltrated the school playground, Chris noted that it was after Lilith, but that only confused her.

However, since that day, Chris always said stuff about a camp, or a safe place for people like them; a lot of stuff Lilith didn't understand. However, one morning, just before noon, during school, Chris intercepted her in between classes and pulled her along. He kept telling her to keep moving, that something big was after her, that he needed to find a fountain of water, and mentioned camp half-something again. Lilith wasn't as athletic as he was, nor did she have his drive, so Chris was practically pulling her along. He pushed through one of the doors, the alarm blared, Lilith was afraid of getting into trouble, but that didn't seem to stop Chris and he continued to pull her with him. She was beginning to get scared, but since Chris had always been nice and sincere with her, she figured there was something bad going on.

Despite that, Lilith couldn't keep up with Chris, she nearly collapsed many times, until they reached a park a few blocks down from the school, she collapsed, telling Chris that she couldn't keep going.

Lilith doesn't remember well what happened after that, she just knows something happened to destroy the park, and then she remembers police, and then having to move foster homes once again. It wasn't until she got settled into her new 'home' that she could begin to process what had even happened.

No matter how hard she tried, she could never make heads or tails of what happened, only that something was chasing her and Chris and he tried to protect her, and that no one seemed to remember Chris. Every time she brought him up, they give her a blank stare and ask, "Who?"

Lilith has since then grown a bit, able to stand on her own and even able to keep herself together when she was picked on for her skin and her 'weird aura'. However, since then, her shell had only become that much harder to crack, and was generally as silent as a mute, due to her extreme desire not to bring any attention, at all, to her; simply preferring to blend into the background and go with the flow.

Her current foster family, also adopted a 14 year old orphaned kid along with Lilith, named Tyler, he was a short brown haired kid with hazel eyes. He was honest and looked up to Lilith, seemingly unable to see how everyone else treated her. She was grateful to him for that, but once again; how long would that last before even he turned on her?

Despite all of her worrying, her new life with her new family was going splendid, but once more, that changed when she received a letter with her name written on it in cursive with a strange, glowing, golden ink. While she was curious what was on it, she hesitated, for two reasons. One. The letter seemingly appeared on her desk, with no stamp or any indication as to who sent it. When Lilith questioned her foster mother, she said that to her knowledge, no mail had arrived for Lilith. Two. It had Lilith's last name on it, her real last name. Lilith's ancestry was Japanese, her last name was O'Hara, but she never gave out her real name, not even to her foster families, because that would only lead to more discrimination and Lilith doesn't know if she could take more She simply adopted the last name of her foster family.

Lilith, albeit hesitantly, opened the letter and nearly fainted at the first line. "Hey there, Lili," Strike 1, the nickname Chris had come up with for Lilith, since back then he had a lisp and couldn't pronounce the 'th' sound that well. She kept reading, it said that he was sorry for not checking up on her sooner, but after the incident in the park, he wasn't permitted to leave camp for a while. However, he knows how dangerous the world is and was happy to know that she was doing fine.

Lilith laughed bitterly at that, how could her situation be any where near fine? She shook her head and kept reading.

He said that he knew where she was and that he wanted to meet up to talk. He gave her a location and a time, downtown at noon three days from now.

At the end of the letter, giving her instructions on how to reply. She grabbed a pen and wrote on the bottom of the letter, "I've been worried sick about you! Of course I'll meet up with you, I'll definitely be there no matter what!" She folded the letter and put it back in the white envelope and just like the letter said, it resealed itself. She then grabbed the envelope and walked to her window, opened it, and held it out, "To Chris Chase, Half-Blood Hill, Long Island, New York. He'll pay." With a 'cha-ching' sound, the letter vanished out of her hand, like magic.

Lilith stared at her hand, then at the setting sun. Was this all real? Chris actually… existed? She shook her had and began planning what to wear.

The story begins with Lilith on the bus, heading downtown, to meet Chris, three days from the ending of this chapter.